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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has the Wallflower Order figured out how to undermine the Jes Grew?
(a) By educating people in European philosophy.
(b) By buying its followers’ loyalty for the Wallflower Order.
(c) By starving it of money and musicians.
(d) By shipping sufferers to Africa.

2. To what does Battraville compare feeding the loas?
(a) Publishing black poetry.
(b) Selling bootleg liquor.
(c) Smashing jazz records.
(d) Supporting jazz musicians.

3. What threat does Hinkle Von Vampton hold over Nathan Brown?
(a) That he will never catch the Jes Grew if he does not publish in the Benign Monster.
(b) That he will be infected with the Jes Grew if he does not publish in the Benign Monster.
(c) That he will not be published in other places if he won’t publish in the Benign Monster.
(d) That he will be killed if he does not publish in the Benign Monster.

4. How are the times described at the beginning of Chapter 53?
(a) The end of the road.
(b) The beginning of a new age.
(c) The dark time in a transition.
(d) The end of the good times.

5. What does Reed say the Book gave to Hugues de Payens?
(a) The sacred spirit.
(b) All the old dance moves.
(c) The worst of itself.
(d) Recipes for virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moses do after he demonstrated his power?

2. What does Reed say is Masonry’s relationship with the Knights Templar?

3. How long will it be before Earline is alright after Black Herman’s treatment?

4. What did James Frazer call the Black Mud Sound?

5. What is the Spiraling Agony?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Battraville reveal to PaPaLaBas?

2. What was the meaning of Abdul Hamid’s epigram?

3. What solution does Mr. Mellon propose for containing the Jes Grew?

4. Who is gathered at the Irvington-on-Hudson party?

5. What does Battraville say haunts White culture?

6. How is Moses’ concert received?

7. What happens when the box with the Book is brought into the party?

8. Describe Woodrow Wilson Jefferson’s departure for home.

9. What does Battraville say is the difference between VooDoo in America and VooDoo in Haiti?

10. What is PaPaLaBas’ explanation of Earline’s seduction of the trolley car driver?

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